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    Outlining a strategic legitimacy assessment method: the case of the Illinois livestock industry (review)
    with Peter Goldsmith
    Agriculture and Human Values 31 (2): 215-230. 2014.
    The case and importance for managers and stakeholders to understand organizational legitimacy is very clear. A gap though exists, in both theory and application, as to how managers and community stakeholders proceed when they seek to understand and affect the legitimacy state of a firm or an industry. This article addresses this problem. Using public hearing transcripts we analyze over 7,000 lines of text to build a database of 589 statements regarding the legitimacy/illegitimacy of large confin…Read more